September 4, 2008: A recent article in the Fort Worth Weekly (August 3, 2008) warns of the impending battle over the place of evolution in Texas's state science standards. "The basic fight is expected to be over what kids are

The Santa Clara men's soccer team brings their Midwest road trip to a close at the Middleton Sports & Fitness Invite. The Broncos battle Wisconsin on Sept. 5 at 3 p.m. PT and then face UW-Milwaukee on Sept. 7 at

The Santa Clara volleyball team remains on the road this weekend at the 2008 Sheraton Four Points Arizona Invitational. SCU will face Texas Tech and Arizona on Sept. 5, and Texas State on Sept. 6

A new study found obese people with asthma are 4.6 times more likely to be hospitalized for asthma than non-obese people with asthma. The study surveyed 1,113 asthmatics and is the first study to control for risk factors that explain

The British government has invested more money in Interactive Whiteboards in its schools than any other government in the world. But is this huge investment worth it? Have the new data projection technologies allowed students to learn more effectively? This

An unsatisfying drug for anxiety reveals to scientists a promising novel anti-cancer drug target. Cancer cells have multiple ways to avoid apoptosis, programmed cell death the means by which organisms deal with defective cells. One defense is to produce quantities

Specific brain regions show increased activity during hallucinations. Researchers introduce a new experimental approach to studying hallucinations as they occur.

Scientists have demonstrated that intellectual work induces a substantial increase in calorie intake. The details of this discovery could go some way to explaining the current obesity epidemic.

An array of broken, missing and overactive genes have been identified in a genetic survey of glioblastoma, the most common and deadly form of adult brain cancer, report scientists. The large-scale combing of the brain cancer genome confirms the key

Investigators have detected a multitude of broken, missing, and overactive genes in pancreatic and brain tumors, in the most detailed genetic survey yet of any human tumor. Some of these genetic changes were previously unknown and could provide new leads

Cancer patients have complained for years about the mental fog known as chemobrain. Now in animal studies, researchers have discovered that injections of N-acetyl cysteine, an antioxidant, can prevent the memory loss that breast cancer chemotherapy drugs sometimes induce. .

A recent study found a method to increase enrollment among high-risk individuals in HIV prevention programs.

In a case-control study, the presence of measles virus RNA was no more likely in children with autism and GI disturbances than in children with only GI disturbances. Furthermore, GI symptom and autism onset were unrelated to MMR vaccine timing.

Echolocation may have evolved more than once in bats, according to new research from the University of Bristol.

In a surprising reversal of conventional wisdom, a DNA-based study has revealed that the last of the woolly mammoths—which lived between 40,000 and 4,000 years ago—had roots that were exclusively North American.

A researcher on a short trip to a foreign country, with little money, but a digital camera in hand has devised a novel approach to digitizing foreign archives that could speed up research.

The capacity to drink and tolerate milk may have been of tremendous importance for the cultural development of Europe. Researchers will now study when and where this capacity emerged and what it entailed.

Iswar Hariharan, the Choh Hao Li Chair in Biochemistry & Molecular Endocrinology, has been awarded one of the National Institutes of Health's first EUREKA grants, which are designed to fund unconventional but potentially high-impact research. Hariharan will use the $200,000

The Energy Biosciences Institute has begun a new, biweekly seminar series this semester focusing on areas of importance within the biofuel field.

Published:September 4, 2008Paper Released:July 2008Authors:David James Brunner, Bradley R. Staats, Michael L. Tushman, and David M. Upton Executive Summary: Many organizations struggle to balance the conflicting demands of efficiency and innovation. Organizations can become more efficient in the short run